Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

from Many Redundant Columns. A young son of Edward s. Mcdonald, the convicted Chicago boodler, fell from the up- per story of the county hospital and received fatal injuries. His father succeeded in being released from his cell just in time to close the little fellows eyes in death.
 Tennessee has provided for tho payment of the July interest. "A fire at Leavenworth, Kansas, destroyed property estimated at S4OO,0O0.
 The Lansing Journal having vaguely pub- lished insinuations that members of the Mich igan Legislature were corruptly influenced to pass or reject bills, resolution has been adopt ed by the House requesting the editor to fur nish names and such other particulars as he can.
 Daniel Pratt known as ssThe Great Amer ican Traveller" died at Chelsea, Mass, aged seventy-eight.
 Charles Muller, an electric light engineer, was instantly killed in New York by al owing his hand to come in contact with Give" wire.
 The Navy Department will probably adopt the designs of the Bureau of Construction for the new war vessels, none of the competitive designs being satisfactory.
 The Fidelity National Bank of Cincinnati has been notified by the Treasury Department that it will not be permitted to reopen its doors except under an entire new management. Capt. Roland, of the schooner E. P. Beals, dropped dead on the deck while his vessel was crossing Lake St. Clair. Capt. Roland was well-known vessel master, and resided in Buff falo.
 At the commencement exercises of the Sandy Creek Academy in Oswego county, N. Y., the lady graduates wore calico gowns. The Board of Trustees at a meeting approved the innovation and favored it's continuance.
 Bernard D. Stavitskey, Louisville cloth- fer, committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart. Mental depression, ill health, quarrel with his son, and inability to meet his coming rent were the probable causes.
 The thermometer at Richmond Va, reached 96 deg, but heavy rain storm sent 1t down to 70 deg. at midnight. During the storm lightning shattered several electric light poles, and large portion of the city was left in dark ness.
 It is reported that an Eastern syndicate has near Wabash, Ind, and will lay pipes to Chi cago, 15S miles distant. The we'll is the larg- est in the State, having daily capacity of al- most 12, ,0OO, ,0c0 cubic feet.
 Heinrich Dochestcch, the murderer of Franz Mundel in Chicago was captured at Elgin, H., after long chase. He made a full confession. He was placed in jail and during the night hung himself.
 Three suspected train robbers arrested in Lavaca county, Texas have been taken to Flatonia for identification. Wells, Fargo & Ca. have offered Sl ,0O0 reward for the capture and conviction of each of the robbers. Gov Ross also offers Q reward of $500, the Southern Pacific Railway Company offers S250, and the United States Government S20O, making a total of Sl, ,95) for the capture and conviction of each of the twelve train robbers. It is thought these large rewards will induce some friend of the gang to make known their where Rbouts.
 By the upsetting of the barge P. H. Wal ter on Lake Erie during Q cyclone, eight per sons lost their lives
 During a desperate fight between a negro desperado and police officer in New Orleans, the latter was desperately wounded and the former killed.
 President John Baseom, of the Wisconsin State University, preached his thirteenth nual and final baccalaureate sermon. He leaves the University at the close of the pres ent school year, and goes to Williamstown, Mass.
 No new cases of yellow fever were re- ported at Key West, but there were two deaths The record up to date stands as follows: Cases, S4; deaths, IS; discharged cured, q; remain ing sick, IA.
 A band of hostile Apaches passed north ward from Tuscan, Lieut.. Johns command be- ing twelve miles behind hotly pursuing them. It is believed the Indians hope to reach the White Mountains.
 John Dwyer, resident of Pittston, aged 20, attempted to jump on a moving freight train on the Delaware Lackawana < Western Railroad, but he was thrown under the wheels and instantly killed.
 James Alexander L. Wilson, the default ing treasurer of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, has been arrested in Toronto. His de- falcations amount to $500, ,00O.
 The banks of New York and Brooklyn offered nearly the first years interest as pre- mium to obtain Connecticut's new State loan of S1, ,OOO, ,0O0-three and & half per cents.
 Cardinal Gibbons dedicated St. Pauls Chapel in Washington.
 James Redhead and Harry Anderson were drowned at St. Joseph, Mo.
 -Renckheim & Brothers candy factory on South Clinton street, Chicago, was burned. Loss S2o,0OO
 Sidney Soule, book-keeper for E. B. Preston & Go. of Chicago. has been arrested for embezzlement. Bucket shops led to his downfall.
 Tt is expected the tobacco tax will be en- tirely removed during the next session of Con- gress.
 Tho Presidents next trip with Mrs. Cleye- land will probably be to the mountains of Virginia, where they will spend Mrs. Cleve- lands 23d birthday, July 21.
 A lady of Portsmouth. Va., was gored to death by the same bull which killed her hus- band one year ago.
 John Tobin, Q refugee from Salt Lake City, is suing the corporation of that place for $1, ,000, 900.
 An employee of an electric lighting com pany in Chicago, while at work on the wires, was instantly killed by shock.
 The affairs of Kershaw, the Chicago wheat operator, arc in the hands of receiver.
 Southern Illinois is overrun with crop-de- stroying insects.
 Two gypsy girls were struck by lightning while sitting under tree at Reading, Pa.
  the bill providing for the safer heating of rail- road cars.
 The rice crop in Louisiana has been badly damaged by 8 storm.
 Guy Webber, of Cincinnati, who is in San Francisco acting for Eastern capitalists, has concluded the purchase of two million acres of land in Sonora, Mexico. The purchase was made from different persons and the purpose IS to establish an American colony.
 The Missouri Legislature has received a remarkable communication signed by B. F. Hummer, Chief of the "Bald Knobbers," a vigiiant organization existing in the southern part of the State, in which notice is given that unless the extra session of the Legislature ad- tourns by June g the entire army of 'sBald Xnobbers" will be summoned to disband it.. --Ben Hance, negro, was lynched in St. 4ary's county, Md.
 The town of Duxbury, Mass, celebrated It's 25Oth anniversary.
 Mary Pickens, of Taylorsville, H., eigh- teen years old, has been arrested at Indianap- olis on a charge of blackmailing prominent physician.
 John W. Smith, who was hanged in Head county, Ga., for murder, married to a Miss Ewing just before he ascended the scaf- fold.
 The Utah Mormons have issued call for constitutional convention to meet Juno 30, for the purpose of calling convention to ap- ply for Statehood.
 The business of the bankrupt Swan cattle firm at Cheyenne is assuming shape for set